ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington
within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible.

In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have
signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals.

Done in duplicate at Paris, the 10th day of December, in the year
of our Lord 1898.

_William R. Day_.
_Cushman K. Davis_.
_William P. Frye_.
_Geo. Gray_.
_Whitelaw Reid_.
_Eugenio Montero Rios_.
_B. de Abarzuza_.
_J. de Garnica_.
_W. R. de Villa-Urrutia_.
_Rafael Cerero_.

Two years afterwards a supplementary treaty was made between the
United States and Spain, whereby the Islands of Cagayan de Jolo,
Sibutu, and other islets not comprised in the demarcation set forth
in the Treaty of Paris, were ceded to the United States for the sum
of $100,000 gold. These small islands had, apparently, been overlooked
when the Treaty of Paris was concluded.

CHAPTER XXIV

An Outline of the War of Independence, Period 1899-1901

"I speak not of forcible annexation because that is not to be
thought of, and under our code of morality that would be criminal
aggression."--_President McKinley's Message to Congress_; _December_,
1897.

"The Philippines are ours as much as Louisiana by purchase, or Texas
or Alaska."--_President McKinley's Speech to the 10th Pennsylvania
Regiment; August_ 28, 1899.

_Ignorance_ of the world's ways, beyond the Philippine shores,
was the cause of the Aguinaldo party's first disappointment. A
score of pamphlets has been published to show how thoroughly the
Filipinos believed America's mission to these Islands to be solely
prompted by a compassionate desire to aid them in their struggle
for immediate sovereign independence. Laudatory and congratulatory
speeches, uttered in British colonies, in the presence of American
officials, and hope-inspiring expressions which fell from their lips
before Aguinaldo's return to Cavite from exile, strengthened that
conviction. Sympathetic avowals and grandiloquent phrases, such as
"for the sake of humanity," and "the cause of civilization," which were
so freely bandied about at the time by unauthorized Americans, drew
Aguinaldo into the error of believing that some sort of bond really
existed between the United States and the Philippine Revolutionary
Party. In truth, there was no agreement between America and the
Filipino